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What the Green Paper means for social housing

by Stuart Macdonald|14 August 201830 October 2019|Blog

The Social Housing Green Paper may well mark a seminal moment in the English housing sector. However, this may perhaps be more for what it ushered out than what it ushered in. A number of notable policies introduced during the...

Housing 2017, day three: How are landlords making tower blocks safer?

by Stuart Macdonald|29 June 201730 October 2019|Blog

Grenfell Tower was often the only subject on everyone’s lips at the Chartered Institute of Housing’s annual event in Manchester this week. Yet, it was striking how little common direction existed in efforts to make homes safe in the wake...

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Housing 2017: Social housing in the spotlight over Grenfell

by Stuart Macdonald|27 June 201730 October 2019|Blog

Speakers at the opening day of this year’s Chartered Institute of Housing annual event in Manchester had an unenviable task. They had to acknowledge that everything they said in their presentations was in the context of the tragic events at...